Hi,
in the automake tarballs, the 'bootstrap' script is missing, but it would be needed when modifying any of the automake files in a tarball. In other words, when used in an rpm build script: Source: automake-1.11.tar.bz2 Patch1: foobar.diff modifying m4/init.m4 Not running bootstrap after applying Patch1 causes configure/make to fail: + ./configure [...] + make CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && perllibdir="/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.11/lib:./lib" "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.11/aclocal" --acdir=m4 -I m4 /bin/sh: /usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.11/aclocal: No such file or directory make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CEw4fJ (%build) Please provide the bootstrap script in the next release tarballs instead of just the git tree. Thanks, Jan